This Monday May 20th will be airing an episode I worked on with German cartoonist Thomas Wellmann. I did two boards with Thomas, via skype and gmail video hangouts. Ako had taken two rotations off to work on her art show at the Japanese American National Museum, so it was a cool chance to feel a different partner dynamic.

Also, I wrote a song for the episode. It was intended for a sequence in the middle of the episode, but ended up not fitting because of time. So I asked Muto if we could put the song at the end credits. I recorded a demo with myself and Ako singing. The intention was to have a bunch of kids sing it, but that didn’t happen. So our voices are there still.

From all the previews, this episode is shaping up to be bombastic.
What’s the other episode that you storyboarded with Wellman?

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

The other episode is called “Only Wizards Allowed”

Samuel

can’t wait to see it. is this going to be the first time your voice appears on adventure time?

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

Yes. But you won’t hear it unless you get it on itunes, because CN runs ads over the credits.

Samuel

oh man. that sucks.maybe i can get a digital version with the end credits.

Samuel

and share it with my friends

Samuel

the demo’s rad its a shame viewers are deprived of such magnificence.

wawawaw

is Only Wizards Allowed gonna be another cliffhanger episode like the last season?

http://cellar-dweller.org/ebsoftware Brian

how very beach boys of you.. i like the song.. enjoyed the episode! Episodes you have more involvement with are always my favorites! especially enjoyed more dark magic junk with peppermint butler..

my anti-spam word .. is dedrick..

alabaster moses

“it’s infatuation. the pain you’re feeling is caused by an overvaluation of a projected imaginary relationship…”

this uncannily hacks through every self-imposed “girl problem” I’ve had from when I was twelve up to now. Like literally, right now, as I type this. As much as I wish that I’d conquered this by now, this line put me in my place in a totally healthy way. Do you write the episodes you story board? A lot of Pepp-but’s dialogue smacked of your mannerisms.

Gally

awesome episode!! What was going to happen in the cut scene that this song was in?

parvomagnus

What was the context for the song? I wish Frederator still posted those storyboards.

http://ryanthomasdesign.wordpress.com citizenscruff

nice little song, dude. Also, was Braco born in the line to court the princess?

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

@Alabaster Moses: I write half of the dialog of the episodes I work on. Princess Bubblegum’s analysis of Braco was actually written by Nate Cash. My original pass on the scene didn’t have her explaining much, but Nate felt like it was important to know her point of view about Braco. I guess I wanted it to be a little more opaque, but usually that’s not how cartoons work.

@Gally – you can hear the song in the end credits if you get the episode on itunes.

@Parvomagnus – it was meant to be a warning for Braco not to go on the quest for the soul stone

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

@Citizenscruff : Yeah I think he was born in the line.

Daniel

Is it possible to get a extended version of the finished version? It sounds really sweet!

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

I don’t think there is one.

http://fornjot.tumblr.com/ Bjørn

That last slap, was that your or Sire Wellmann’s idea? I categorically deplore televised domestic violence. Like in Wreck it Ralph: Fix it Fred is stuck in sinking sand with another character, and Fred has her punch his face in (which he fixes with his hammer) to get the LaughyTaffy vines overhead to titter and unfurl. Punching a person in the face is funny? Is that really what they want to be showing kids? I refer to Mr. Rogers’ opinion: “With this help, now our program has a budget of $6000. It may sound like quite a difference, but $6000 pays for less than two minutes of cartoons. Two minutes of animated, what I sometimes say, bombardment. I’m very much concerned, as I know you are, about what’s being delivered to our children in this country. And I’ve worked in the field of child development for six years now, trying to understand the inner needs of children. We deal with such things as — as the inner drama of childhood. We don’t have to bop somebody over the head to…make drama on the screen. We deal with such things as getting a haircut, or the feelings about brothers and sisters, and the kind of anger that arises in simple family situations. And we speak to it constructively.”
The pilot episode of Adventure Time said it right, “I think we’re good to just sit here and… talk about our feelings!”

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

@Bjorn -Mr. Rogers was great, but I don’t want to write or draw anything that will ever resemble his neighborhood. Yup that was my joke.

Paul

Wow, PepBut really is channeling his innner Aleister Crowley. I loved this episode, good job as always! BTW, the slap joke had me laughing for a good minute.

Daniel

Sorry, I was talking about the credits song “Braco Don’t Go”. Is there any extended version of the finished version of that?

http://jessemoynihan.com Jesse

There isn’t as far as I know.

http://fornjot.tumblr.com/ Bjørn

…that being said…. it was the funniest part of the episode. “You should have given him to ME!!!”

https://www.facebook.com/choose.goose.75 Jotham

[quote comment=”4728″]The other episode is called “Only Wizards Allowed”[/quote]
Hey umm I heard you storyboarded the episode one last job do you have a promo art for it?